Spiritualists National Union (Parliamentary Committee) [ Arthur Conan Doyle ].

[Private and Confidential] Deputation to the Right Honorable J. R. Clynes, M.P. (Home Secretary) by the United Spiritualist Organisations held at the Home Office, Whitehall, S.W. I on Tuesday 1st July, 1930; the Home Secretary was Accompanied by Sir Ernle Blackwell, Arthur Locke, C. D. Carew Robinson and F. A. Newsam. The Deputation was introduced by Mr. Kelly, M.P.

Whitehall UK: Spiritualists National Union, Limited, 1930. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. Booklet. 20pp. Original string bound stapled printed wrappers. Front wrapper printed "Private and Confidential." A seemingly verbatim transcription of the conversation between a Deputation from a variety of British Spiritualist organisations, and J. R. Clynes, the British Home Secretary. The deputation was seeking to have archaic laws against witchcraft or vagrancy withdrawn or rewritten so that they could not be used to persecute spiritualists and mediums. The deputation included Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whose comments are recorded. Genuinely rare - we could find no reference to any copies in any of the major collections, including the British Library, Harry Price, Houdini etc. collections. From the collection of Dr. M. H. Coleman, although not marked as such. Covers a bit darkened at edges, lightly rubbed, staples a bit rusty, pages lightly toned, else a tight, clean VG+ copy. Item #62095

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